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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-civilians-amendment-scheme-2001/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-civilians-amendment-scheme-2001/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/420",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Injuries (Civilians) Amendment Scheme 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-injuries-civilians-amendment-scheme-2001",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Scheme may be cited as the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Amendment Scheme 2001 and shall, subject to articles (2) to (6), come into force on 9th April 2001 (“the commencement date”).\n(2) In this Scheme, “the principal Scheme” means the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983 and, except where the context otherwise requires, a reference to a numbered article, Part, Table or Schedule is to the article, Part, Table or Schedule in the principal Scheme which bears that number.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/686; amending instruments are S.I. 1983/1164, 1540, 1984/1289, 1675, 1985/1313, 1986/628, 1987/191, 1988/367, 2260, 1989/415, 1990/535, 1300, 1991/708, 1992/702, 3226, 1993/480, 1994/715, 2021, 1995/445, 1996/502, 1997/812, 1998/278, 1999/262 and 2000/301."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/420/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:03:57.286409+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}